Founding Women of Albuquerque

(front)

In February 1706 several families participated in the founding of Albuquerque but the names of only 22 are preserved in the historical record. Within those families were many women honored as being founders of La Villa San Felipe de Alburquerque. ...

Frenchman Bay

Vessels of all types have plied the waters f Frenchman Bay for centuries. Five thousand years ago, indigenous people may have paddled dugout canoes into the bay to reach fishing grounds or hunt sea mammals and swordfish. More recently, Wabanaki ...

Michael Gaffney Home

* 1804 *

Michael Gaffney was born in Granard Ireland and immigrated to the United States in 1797. After a short period in New York, he set sail for Charleston, South Carolina. He departed Charleston for the upstate and arrived at ...

Hard Fighting Near Leetown

The families who lived outside Leetown, Arkansas first heard shots fired on the far side of Little Mountain, the low wooded rise you see to the right. Half of the Confederate Army of the West was marching eastward on Ford ...

C.T. Huffman Grocery

Built circa 1887, Lutey's Grocery and the Barrett and Jacky Harness Shop originally shared occupancy of this one-story commercial building. By the 1890s, Valentine Jacky shared this building with C. T. Huffman who supplied groceries to Philpsburg and the nearby ...

Carroll County / Floyd County

(East Facing Side):

Carroll County

Area 458 Square Miles

Formed in 1842 from Grayson, and named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. New River runs through this county.

(West Facing Side):

Floyd County

Area 376 Square Mils

Formed in 1831 from Montgomery, ...

Site of Moravia School

In the mid-nineteenth century, Moravian immigrants began moving into central Texas, attracted by fertile soils and the hope for better lives. One who settled here was Pavel Machu (1834-1907), a native of the Vsetin Valley in what is now the ...

Bicentennial of General George Washington's Birthday

To commemorate

the Bicentennial of the birthday of

General George Washington

at this spot hallowed by his stroke

of military genius in the crossing of

the Delaware on Christmas night – 1776

and to remind us

that the triumphs of the Revolution

were made possible only by his ...

200th Birthday of George Washington

1732 - 1932

In commemoration of the

two hundredth birthday of

George Washington

These eagles

and this tablet were placed here

by the

New Jersey Society of the

Colonial Dames of America

Marker is at the intersection of River Road and Washington Crossing Pe Rd, ...

Heater Fields

The 2nd (Vermont) Brigade of the 2nd Division, VI U.S. Corps, briefly deployed around the Heater House as skirmishers in the first federal effort to stop the 19 October 1864 Confederate morning attack. When this proved unfeasible, the entire division ...